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While Hitler's Armies were rolling methodically through Poland, and children were being evacuated from London last September, one Bradshaw Crandell, Manhattan illustrator, announced that a bright-eyed, blonde debutante named Patricia Plunkett had "what a girl needs to be beautiful," and started 18-year-old Miss Plunkett on a career as a glamor girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Glamor Girl | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...public calls Society (run-of-the-mine Social Registerites). Notably present: Mary A. (for Alrichs) Steele, tall, blonde, beauteous daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele, earlier this year the candidate of Stork Club's Pressagent Charles ("Chic") Farmer for 1940 Glamor Girl. Notably absent: Patricia Plunkett, shapely, blonde daughter of Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, suggested by Glamorizer Farmer as substitute candidate when Mrs. Steele yanked Mary back into the shadows of glamorless respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...longest name on the British Navy list is that of Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. His friends call him "Old Plunk." In 1914, when he was a young Commander, he accompanied Rear-Admiral (later Admiral of the Fleet, Earl) Beatty on a military mission to the late Tsar Nicholas II-as a step in desperate preparation for World War I, which broke out a few weeks later. Last week, now one of Britain's wisest naval strategists, he set out for Moscow again-in a desperate effort to stave off World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heather and Steel | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. John Montague (onetime La Verne Moore), 34, prodigious golfer who became a Hollywood celebrity, then turned out to be a fugitive from justice, was later tried and acquitted of a seven-year-old robbery charge; and Esther Plunkett, wealthy Beverly Hills widow; "some time ago somewhere in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Sherman, after those Coleman are Plunkett around, they' 11 Gluect for Marcy, but Hallett all, Hamity will reign Hafter the Valorz clash. Then forward Howe for Virginia who'll also get the Gates for Us Clubbe...

Author: By H. FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: HOWARD PICK THE WINDY CITY WHEN HUEY STICKS WITH REES | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

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